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Lemon loaf cake with clotted cream frosting

August 21, 2024

Serves

8

Prep Time

25 mins

Cook Time

35 mins

Total Time

1 hr

This cake is truly gorgeous. The sponge is light, fluffy and lemony, with lemon zest and juice included in the batter. Once cooked, it’s topped with a frosting made from clotted cream, soft cream cheese, icing sugar and more lemon zest and juice.

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Serves: 8 Prep Time: 25 mins Prep Time: 35 mins Prep Time: 1 hr

Method

Step 1

Preheat your oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line a loaf tin with baking paper.

Step 2

Beat the butter and caster sugar until pale and creamy. Next, add the eggs and slowly mix through.

Step 3

Sift in the self-raising flour, then add the zest of 1 and a half lemons, and the juice of one (use the lemon which has all been zested). Mix until well combined.

Step 4

Spoon the mixture into the tin and then level the top with a spoon/spatula. Bake for 35 minutes, and check it’s cooked by piercing with a sharp knife or skewer, and seeing if it comes out clean.

Step 5

Remove from the tin and transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Step 6

If you have an electric whisk, use it for the icing. Whisk together the cream, cream cheese, icing sugar, zest of half a lemon (zest the other half of the half zested lemon), and then the juice of that lemon too. Whisk until you have medium-stiff peaks.

Step 7

When the cake is completely cool, spread the frosting over the top. If you like, and have spare lemons, decorate with a little zest and some thin slices of fruit.

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Ingredients

You’ll need (makes 8 slices):

180g butter

180g caster sugar

180g self-raising flour

3 eggs

2 lemons

100g clotted cream

100g soft cream cheese

70g icing sugar

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